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Adam Lanza's mother was shot multiple times in the head, the state's medical examiner confirmed Sunday. Authorities say Lanza then went on a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday, killing 20 children and six adults. Lanza, 20, shot himself once in the head, the medical examiner said. Nancy Lanza was found in her bed. The nation continued to mourn Sunday for the dead. People came from around Connecticut and out of state to pay their respects at a makeshift memorial. Preparations also continued for a visit from President Obama Sunday night. Kerry Stewart came from West Hartford with his wife, Mary Lynn, and daughter, Grace. "We just felt, as a family, we...

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Adam Lanza's mother was shot multiple times in the head, the state's medical examiner confirmed Sunday.
Authorities say Lanza then went on a rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday, killing 20 children and six adults. Lanza, 20, shot himself...

Secretary of State John F. Kerry sought Sunday to tamp down the controversy over Israel's prime minister's plan to address Congress this week on U.S. negotiations with Iran, saying the administration does not want to see Benjamin Netanyahu's visit tuned...

For the tens of thousands bearing flowers and tying black ribbons to railings in honor of slain Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, the solemn march through the Moscow drizzle on Sunday was a time for silence, not slogans. The marchers...

GENEVA Secretary of State John Kerry defended Israel on Monday at a United Nations group that's often hostile toward the Jewish state. In a speech to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the UN's top human rights group, Kerry showcased U.S....

WASHINGTON Congress returns this week facing yet another Department of Homeland Security funding deadline but the appropriations squabble has suddenly become overshadowed by an increasingly bitter internal fight among House Republicans for the soul of...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mia Love of Utah became the first black female Republican in Congress on Tuesday as she was sworn in along with 57 other freshmen members of the U.S. House.
Love, the 39-year-old former mayor of Saratoga Springs, was elected in...

A series of bomb blasts Sunday targeting a compound housing Kurdish security and intelligence forces in the northeast Iraq province of Diyala killed at least 58 people and wounded scores more, according to Iraqi officials.
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After a fourth straight night of low-level protests in Ferguson, Missouri, anxious residents still did not know Sunday when a grand jury would return a decision on whether to charge a white police officer who shot an unarmed black teen to death this...

Kurdish defenders held off Islamic State militants in Syria's border town of Kobani on Sunday, but the fighters struck with deadly bombings in Iraq, killing dozens of Kurds in the north and assassinating a provincial police commander in the west.
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The United States says other countries are willing to launch air strikes in Syria against Islamic State militants and its U.N. ambassador predicted on Sunday: "We will not do the air strikes alone."Washington is trying to build an...

The sole American prisoner of war held in Afghanistan was flown to a U.S. military hospital in Germany on Sunday after being freed in a swap deal for five Taliban militants who were released from the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
Army Sergeant Bowe...

In a series of major changes at ABC News, Diane Sawyer will be stepping down from her role as anchor of "World News" after nearly five years on the job and will be succeeded by David Muir, the network announced Wednesday.
In addition, George...

The radical Sunni Muslim group advancing in Iraq, though it puts the Middle East's stability at risk, is “just one of a number of organizations” in the region that pose a threat to U.S. interests, President Obama said Sunday.
Obama said the rapid...

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl suffered harsh treatment at the hands of his Taliban captors including long periods of solitary confinement, according to U.S. military officials who also said the soldier is struggling emotionally and has not yet called...

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WASHINGTON — The drive to end the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency is gaining strength, as Senate Democrats said Sunday that Congress will change the law to ban the practice if President Obama does not do it first.
“It’s...

The most unusual guest this Sunday morning?
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who talks to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week."
Rodman will talk about his visit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un.
The headline from Rodman: The North...